JP2002335587A - Precision managing system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a precision managing system capable of acquiring data of a 24-hour unit operating state or an environment in which the unit is placed real time or at a necessary time interval when a work such as a sample collecting/measuring, analyzing and the like of a chemical substance is executed without necessity of a monitoring person. SOLUTION: Necessary data is captured to a computer 12 of a fixed base station 11 via the Internet 5 or the like. Whether the data matches the preset warning conditions or not is judged. When the data matches the conditions, a preset warning message is transmitted to a person E in charge of this case of a mobile base station 13 in the format of an e-mail. The data is automatically preserved in a data managing unit of the computer, and is set so as to be readable via a Web server.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION The present invention can monitor the operation status of a sample collecting device, a pretreatment device, an automatic analyzer and the like for 24 hours, and particularly in quality control and safety control for sampling a chemical substance such as dioxin. To an effective quality control system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art If a process does not proceed as specified after sampling and measuring and analyzing a chemical substance, that is, if an abnormality is confirmed, the work of sampling and measuring and analyzing will be troublesome. . In particular, since the sampling operation is performed over a long period of time, the damage is large. Further, if the final analysis result is adopted without recognizing the abnormality during the process, the reliability of the result is reduced. Further, from the viewpoint of safety management, it is required to sequentially confirm whether or not the work is progressing safely.
On the other hand, during work, monitoring by humans is a heavy burden,
In particular, it is not realistic in the case of a field installation type device. It is conceivable to attach a data logger to the device and record the necessary data, and collect it after the work is completed.However, in this case, abnormalities during the process can be confirmed only after the work is completed, so the work time is short, and Only applicable to those that are easy to investigate. There is also a problem in terms of safety management.

[0003]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made in view of the above-mentioned conventional problems, and does not require a monitoring person and performs operations such as sampling, measurement and analysis of chemical substances. In this case, an object of the present invention is to provide a quality control system capable of acquiring data on the operating state of the device and the environment where the device is placed in real time or at required time intervals in a 24-hour period.

[0004]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a data acquisition unit for acquiring data on an operating state of a predetermined device, and an alarm based on a value of the acquired data. An alarm determination unit that determines transmission of a message;
An accuracy management system comprising: a computer having an alarm message transmitting unit for transmitting an alarm message via a network line; and a terminal capable of receiving the alarm message via the network line.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided the quality control system according to the first aspect, wherein the warning message is transmitted in an electronic mail format.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided the accuracy management system according to the first or second aspect, wherein the data acquisition unit is a client connected to a network line.

According to a fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the quality control system according to the third aspect, wherein the client has a data editing unit for editing the collected data.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the accuracy management system according to the fourth aspect, wherein the client further includes a data management unit for storing collected data.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the quality control system according to any one of the first to fifth aspects, when a warning message is transmitted, the computer generates a light and / or sound warning. An accuracy management system comprising a generation unit.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the accuracy management system according to any one of the first to sixth aspects, the computer and a predetermined device are configured to be capable of transmitting a control command to a control unit of the device. The quality control system is characterized in that:

According to an eighth aspect of the present invention, in the accuracy management system according to any one of the first to seventh aspects, transmission and reception of predetermined data and commands are performed through a communication satellite and a network line. is there.

According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, there is provided the quality control system according to any one of the first to eighth aspects, wherein the apparatus is an on-site collecting apparatus for a chemical substance.

According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, in the accuracy management system according to the seventh or eighth aspect, transmission and reception of data and / or control commands of a predetermined device state and detection result are performed through a communication satellite and a network line. It is a quality control system.

[0014]

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a quality control system according to an embodiment of the present invention. Reference numeral 3 indicates an in-house LAN, and reference numeral 5 indicates the Internet. The in-house LAN 3 and the Internet 5 are mutually connected to form a network line. In-house LAN3
A network server (not shown) is provided above. Reference numeral 7 denotes a laboratory, reference numeral 9 denotes a field-installed device, reference numeral 11 denotes a fixed base station, and reference numeral 13 denotes a mobile base station.

FIG. 2 shows the configuration of the laboratory 7. In the laboratory 7, a control unit (not shown) of the preprocessing device 15, various sensors 17 (temperature sensor and humidity sensor) for detecting a change in the preprocessing device 15, a control unit (not shown) of the automatic analyzer 19, and an automatic analyzer 19 Various sensors 21 (temperature sensor, humidity sensor) for detecting a change in the temperature are connected to the slave station 23 of the link unit by a cable (RS-232C) for each device. In addition, a patrol light laboratory alarm 24 as an alarm generator is connected to the slave unit 23 of the link unit and a cable (RS-2).
32C).

The address of the device is set in advance in the slave station 21 of the link unit so that it is possible to know which device is connected. Slave unit 23 of the link unit
A cable (RS-483) is connected between the slave stations and between the slave station 23 and the master station 25 via an inter-device network 27. The master station 25 of the link unit uses a cable (RS
-232C) and is connected to the monitoring personal computer 12 of the fixed base station 11.

The operating information such as the device information of the pre-processing device 15 and the automatic analyzer 19 and the detection results of the various sensors 17 and 21 are transmitted to the fixed base station 11 via the master station 25 of the link unit. Commands transmitted from the monitoring personal computer 12 of the fixed base station 11 to the personal computer 12,
Is transmitted to the control unit and the warning light 24 in the patrol light laboratory.

The fall-off sampler 10 of the on-site installation device 9
In the A and the water sample automatic concentrating device 10B, similarly to the pretreatment device 15 and the automatic analyzer 19 in the laboratory 7, the control unit and various sensors (not shown) are provided with the falling sampler 10A and the automatic water sample concentrating device 10B. It is connected to a transmitting / receiving device (not shown). The transmitting / receiving device in the falling object sampler 10A is connected to an ORBCOMM terminal (not shown), a low-orbit orbiting satellite ORBCOMM 29, which is a kind of communication satellite, a gateway 31, the Internet 5, and a corporate personal computer 3 for monitoring the fixed base station 11 via the company LAN 3. It is connected to a computer 12. The ORBCOMM terminal transmits data at a preset cycle, and the ORBCOMM 29 transmits data to the gateway 31 on land almost in real time. Since ORBCOMM29 is used, e-
It is transmitted and received in mail format.

The transmission / reception device of the automatic water sample concentration apparatus 10B includes a relay base 33, the Internet 5, and an in-house LA.
It is connected to the monitoring personal computer 12 of the fixed base station 11 via N3. In this case, TC
It is transmitted and received in the P / IP protocol format.

The mobile base station 13 comprises a portable terminal such as a laptop computer 35, a mobile phone 37, and a pager 39. These mobile base stations 13 are fixed via the Internet 5 and the company LAN 3. The monitoring personal computer 12 of the base station 11 is connected. In this case, transmission and reception are performed in the e-mail format.

A file 41 (for example, a disk) and a printer 43 are connected to the monitoring personal computer 12 of the fixed base station 11. FIG. 3 shows the configuration of the monitoring personal computer 12. A data acquisition unit 43 and an alarm determination unit 45 are provided for processing laboratory data, and a data acquisition unit 47, an alarm determination unit 49, a data editing unit 51, and Data management unit 5
3 is provided. Also, the data and command transmission unit 55
And an alarm 57 in the PC voice fixed base station as an alarm generator
It has.

Hereinafter, the data processing in the laboratory will be described. As a data processing application, Micros
Microsoft Excel spreadsheet software is used. When the monitoring personal computer 12 is turned on to start the application, a command is transmitted from the monitoring personal computer 12 to the master station 25 of the link unit in real time.

The master station 25 sends a command on the inter-device network 27 with an address, and requests data required for the connected devices 15 and 19 from the slave station 23 having the same address. Each device returns the requested data to the slave station 23, and the returned data is transmitted to the data acquisition unit 43 of the monitoring personal computer 12 via the master station 25. The slave station 23 backs up the data of the devices 15 and 19 even when the monitoring personal computer 12 is stopped, and when the monitoring personal computer 12 returns, the data stored in the memory is automatically restored. Is transmitted to the data acquisition unit 43 of the monitoring personal computer 12.

The data on the operating state of the automatic analyzer 19 (input / output ON / OFF, type of the currently operating process, integrated time, etc.) obtained by the data obtaining unit 43 as described above are shown in FIG. Captured on the work monitor worksheet. And, using the function of the application,
Time series tables and graphs are created.

The processing procedure centered on the alarm determination section 45 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. When the monitoring personal computer 12 is turned on, a data reception routine for warning determination is started at the same time. A timer built into the monitoring personal computer 12 counts,
When a preset monitoring time interval (60 seconds) comes on the monitoring worksheet in FIG. 6, the data check time is reached,
Necessary data is fetched on the monitoring worksheet via the data acquisition unit 43, and the value of the warning is calculated according to a preset cell calculation formula.

In this embodiment, the upper limit value and the lower limit value are checked in the cell of the warning 1 and the value converted to the warning value is displayed. In the cell of the warning 2, the difference between the previous value and the present value is checked and the warning value is checked. Is displayed, and a value obtained by adding the warning values of the warning 1 and the warning 2 is displayed in the warning cell. In the right column of the monitoring worksheet, a preset warning message (for the preprocessing device) is displayed.

Next, an alarm is determined by using a preset alarm message transfer setting sheet of FIG. In this alarm message transfer setting, (1) ON / OFF, (2) transmission address, (3) transmission warning level, and (4) mail type are set. Is greater than or equal to the warning level, it is determined that the warning transmission condition is satisfied. In this case, an e-mai having a message corresponding to the type of the transmission destination (that is, the mobile terminal of the mobile base station) as a text is provided to a person whose ON / OFF is ON.
1 is transmitted from the transmission unit 55 using SMTP.

In the alarm generating section, an alarm signal is transmitted to the alarm (control section) 24 in the patrol light laboratory and the alarm (control section) 57 in the PC voice fixed base station, so that the unillustrated patrol light blinks or the sound of the speaker 59 is emitted. Flowing. When the above process is completed, the current value is written in the previous value column of the monitoring worksheet in FIG. 6, and the one-cycle alarm determination process ends. When the pre-processing device is an automatic pre-processing device, when all processes are completed normally, a report as shown in FIG. At the same time, it is automatically saved as a file 41.

The person in charge of receiving the warning message is e-
The operating conditions are corrected by instructing a person in the laboratory 7 or the fixed base station 11 or in the vicinity thereof by a communication method such as mail and controlling various devices 15 and 19 and various sensors 17 and 21. In some cases, the operation itself is stopped to minimize the damage.

Hereinafter, data processing of the falling object sampler 10A of the on-site installation type device 9 will be described. The data acquisition unit 47, the alarm determination unit 49, the data display unit 51, and the data management unit 53 constitute a client (computer) connected to the in-house LAN 3. Inputting e-mail addresses of various devices constituting the falling object sampler 10A in FIG. 9 in advance
On the registration screen, the device name and the mail address of the device are set, various addresses and ports are set on the warning setting (input / registration) screen of FIG. 10, and further, the external file of FIG. 11 called from the warning setting screen is set. A determination formula for determining whether to set a warning message corresponding to the device on the condition registration / edit screen and a warning message are set, and these setting information are stored in the memory. FIG. 12 shows a command (control command) transmission screen. A command is transmitted by inputting a device name, a mail address and a command, and pressing a transmission command button. FIG. 13 shows a data reception screen.
The latest reception status and the latest warning are displayed.

A processing procedure centered on the alarm judging section 49 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. The transmitting / receiving device of the falling object sampler 10A fetches data in real time, and the fetched data is sent in e-mail format via the Internet 5 to the mail server (PO
P3 server).

Turn on the monitoring personal computer 12
Then, an application (POP3 client) for receiving an e-mail is started. A timer built in the monitoring personal computer 12 counts, and when a preset data check time has elapsed, the mail server is accessed and data reception (e-mail) is started.
If the data fetched from the mail server is not in the format specified in advance, it is deleted. On the other hand, if the format is specified in advance, it is determined whether or not there is the latest data. If there is the latest data, it is automatically saved in the external database 61 via the data management unit 53.

When there is the latest data, the alarm judging section 49 substitutes the latest data into the judgment formula set on the screen shown in FIG. 11, and judges whether or not the alarm transmission condition is satisfied. When it is determined that the alarm transmission condition is satisfied, the e-mail having the body of the warning message (message corresponding to the type of the transmission destination) set on the screen of FIG. 11 is used.
1 is transmitted from the transmission unit 55 using SMTP. Further, an alarm signal is transmitted to an alarm (control unit) 57 in the PC audio fixed base station, and the sound of the speaker 59 is played.

The person in charge of receiving the warning message is e-
An instruction related to control is issued to a person in or near the fixed base station 11 as necessary by a communication method such as mail. The person who received the instruction sends an e-mail with the control command as the text via the transmission unit 55 from the command transmission screen of FIG.
Is transmitted using SMTP. e-mail is in-house LAN 3, Internet 5, Gateway 31, OR
The data is received by the receiver of the falling object sampler 10A via the BCOMM 29 and the like, and the corresponding device is controlled according to the command. Therefore, it is possible to correct the operating conditions or, in some cases, to stop the operation itself, thereby minimizing damage.

Automatic water sample concentrator 1 of on-site type device 9
Since the data of 0B is transmitted in the TCP / IP protocol format, the data acquisition unit 49 accesses the server and acquires the data by downloading the data.
The difference is that the data is transmitted in the P / IP protocol format, but the others are processed in the same way as the data processing of the falling object sampler 10B.

When the editing application of the data editing unit 51 is started, the data acquired by the data acquiring unit 47 is
A screen of position information mapped using the information on the operation status of the device, the display of the history, and the map database 52 (FIG. 1)
5) is displayed. Therefore, a person in the fixed base station 11 can accurately understand the arrangement position of the device, the device information, and the detection result.

As shown in FIG. 16, the external database 6
1 is connected to the Web server 65, and the terminal 67
If it is configured to access the server 65, extract data from the external database 61, convert the data into XML, and receive the required data, the person using the terminal 67 can use the map database 69. Thus, data can be browsed on a screen of information similar to the screen of FIG.

In the present embodiment, the data processing is performed as described above, and in a predetermined case, the alarm message is transmitted to the person in charge in the form of e-mail. , The operating state of the device can be known. Therefore, the person in charge stops the device or switches on / off various sensors according to the contents of the warning message.
It is possible to make a determination such as turning OFF at an early stage, and to remotely control the device as needed.

Although the embodiment of the present invention has been described in detail, the specific configuration is not limited to this embodiment, and there is a change in design without departing from the gist of the present invention. Are also included in the present invention. For example, a configuration may be adopted in which a sensor for detecting the temperature, humidity, and the like of the atmosphere in the laboratory 7 is arranged, and the data is transmitted to the data acquisition unit 43 in the fixed base station 11 in the same manner. Mobile terminal 3
The control commands may be transmitted from 5, 37, and 39 directly or to the control units of various devices via the monitoring personal computer 12 in the fixed base station 11. The data in the laboratory may be acquired by the data acquisition unit 47 via the in-house LAN.

ARGOS may be used instead of the ORBCOMM 29 as a communication satellite. In that case, since the data is released via the Internet 5, the data is obtained by downloading the data from the Internet 5. In addition, a mobile phone may be used in an area where the communication line quality of the mobile phone is stable. In this case, there is an advantage that there is no difficulty in transfer even if the data amount is somewhat large.

[0041]

The system according to the present invention has the above-described configuration, and can monitor the operation state of the apparatus for 24 hours without manual operation. In particular,
By using the system of the present invention, it is possible to reliably grasp and recognize whether or not the on-site work by the on-site type device has been completed, and it is possible to save the state of the device as a record in a fine time series, It is valid.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a quality management system according to an embodiment.

FIG. 2 is a configuration diagram of a laboratory of the quality control system of FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a configuration diagram of a fixed base station of the quality management system of FIG. 1;

FIG. 4 is a worksheet of a laboratory data automatic analyzer operation monitor.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart of data processing of laboratory data.

FIG. 6 is a worksheet for monitoring laboratory data.

FIG. 7 is an alarm message transfer setting for laboratory data.

FIG. 8 is a printout of a report of laboratory data.

FIG. 9 is a screen for setting a mail address of a device of the on-site installation type device.

FIG. 10 is a warning setting screen of a field-installed device.

FIG. 11 is a warning condition registration / edit screen of a field-installed device.

FIG. 12 is a screen for transmitting a command of the on-site installation type device.

FIG. 13 is a reception screen of a field-installed device.

FIG. 14 is a flowchart of data processing of a field-installed device.

FIG. 15 is a display screen of various data of the on-site installation type device.

FIG. 16 is a configuration diagram of a browsing system of data stored in an external database.

[Explanation of symbols]

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Accuracy monitoring system, 3 ... In-house LAN, 5 ... Internet, 7 ... Laboratory, 9 ... Field installation type device, 11 ... Fixed base station, 12 ... Monitoring personal computer, 13 ...
Mobile base stations, 15, 19 ... laboratory equipment, 17, 21 ...
Various sensors, 23, 25: Link unit, 24: Patlite laboratory alarm, 27: Network between devices, 29
... ORBCOMM, 31 ... gateway, 33 ... relay base, 35,37,39 ... portable terminal, 41 ... file, 4
2. Printer, 43: Laboratory data acquisition unit, 45: Laboratory data alarm determination unit, 47: Field installation type device data acquisition unit, 49: Field installation type device data alarm determination unit,
51: Data editing unit, 53: Data management unit, 55: Transmission unit, 57: PC audio fixed base station alarm, 59: Speaker, 61: External database

Continued on the front page (51) Int.Cl. ⁷ Identification symbol FI Theme coat II (Reference) G06F 13/00 630 G06F 13/00 630A 17/40 310 17/40 310B ZAB ZAB F Term (Reference) 2G052 AA01 AA03 AA06 AB22 AC02 AC12 AC19 AD04 AD44 BA05 BA21 HA19 HB09 HB10 HC04 HC17 HC22 HC23 HC42 JA06 JA09 JA20 2G058 AA01 GB01 GB02 GD01 GD06 GD07 GE09 GE10 HA10 5K048 BA21 DC07 EB08 EB10 EB12 FB04 FB11 HA01 HA02

Claims (9)

[Claims] 1. A data acquisition unit for acquiring data on the operation state of a predetermined device, an alarm judgment unit for judging the transmission of an alarm message based on a value of the acquired data, and an alarm message via a network line. A quality management system comprising: a computer having an alarm message transmitting unit for transmitting the alarm message through the network line; and a terminal capable of receiving the alarm message via the network line. 2. The quality control system according to claim 1, wherein the warning message is transmitted in the form of an electronic mail. 3. The quality management system according to claim 1, wherein the data acquisition unit is a client connected to a network line. 4. The quality management system according to claim 3, wherein the client has a data editing unit for editing the collected data. 5. A quality management system according to claim 4, wherein said client further comprises a data management unit for storing collected data. 6. A quality control system according to claim 1, wherein the computer further comprises an alarm generating unit for generating an optical and / or audio alarm when an alarm message is transmitted. A quality control system characterized by the following. 7. The accuracy management system according to claim 1, wherein the computer and a predetermined device are configured to be able to transmit a control command to a control unit of the device. Quality control system. 8. The accuracy management system according to claim 1, wherein transmission and reception of predetermined data and commands are performed through a communication satellite and a network line. 9. The quality control system according to claim 1, wherein the device is a chemical substance on-site collection device.